She's a very good cat.
2007-01-13 01:26:27 · 35 answers · asked by Stef 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what do you mean? animals don't have a soul? then that means we don't have a soul ...since we're animals.
2007-01-13 01:35:02 · update #1
I thought you reached the human level if you had been a bad kitty
2007-01-13 01:36:08 · update #2
If she's a very good cat, surely she doesn't deserve everlasting boredom in the kingdom of the dull - so let's hope she is spared!
2007-01-13 01:51:43 · answer #1 · answered by Openeyes 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i love cats and it would be wonderful for your cat to go to heaven but unfortunately it will not. access to heaven is reserved for humans and specifically those who have declared thatJesus is the Lord of their lives according to Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 10. Animals do not have a spirit, they have a soul but not a spirit. so their lives arefinite and are limited to their lives here on earth. Sorry i couldnt giveyou the answer I am sure you want but this is the truth Jeremy
2007-01-13 05:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy T 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunatetly, animals do not appear to have the privilege of living forever under any circumstances. I find this hard to to take myself as I have two cats and have had rats and hamsters in the past.
There are one or two reasons for believing this from the Bible.
1) When Adam was given laws to obey, he was told that he would die and that he would return to the dust from where he came. (Genesis chapter 2) Adam would only have know what this meant if he had already seen it. He would have seen it many times when all the animals that he had dominion over and cared for died eventually. Therefore, while the Earth and mankind was completely under God's care, animals still died. If animals died under those circumstances, they will continue to die even when the promise of eternal life for man is fulfilled. The special blessing of eternal life was never going to be bestowed on any animal.
2) The Bible was not written for animals to understand. They are not required to draw close to God. if they were, it would have been the cruellest thing to allow animal sacrifice as part of the Mosaic law.
It is truly sad that we will continue to lose our loved pets and other animals, but God still cares for the animals. Jesus used an illustration about sparrows falling to the earth in death and God knowing about it. (Matthew 10:29-31) There were also statutes in the Mosaic law that required Jews to look after their animals.
Eternal life for man on the Earth is the promise that the Bible holds out for all. (Revelation 21:3,4, Psalm 37:10,11) Jehovah's witnesses would be happy to furnish you with more information. On this web site, you can request a visit from one of Jehovah's Witnesses and a free home Bible study.
2007-01-13 02:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cat as well as all animals are tangled in the repeated cycle of birth an death. Only when the spirit soul reaches the human platform he can go upwards (heavenly planets included), downwards (hellish planets included), or go directly to the spiritual realm where birth, disease, old age and death are not present.
2007-01-13 01:34:58 · answer #4 · answered by edcaimo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward and the spirit of the beast that goes downwards to the earth ? Ecclesiastes 3/21
Animals do not have the capacity for communion, delightful as some of them may be. It is true that they do not sin but have to suffer the consequences of man's sin but that in itself does not qualify them. What about reptiles and insects ? Do, for example, mosquitoes go to heaven ? or fleas ?
Vegetation has life as the animals do but it is absurd to consider vegetation as qualifying for heaven. It is also very hard to distinguish some animal and vegetation forms.
Perhaps your understanding of heaven is not quite correct and this misconception enables you to ask the question in a form that anthropomirphises animals (attributes a human form or personality to them).
The things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal, 2 Corinthians4/16, also , the world passes away, the fashion of this world passes away, 1 John 2/17, 1 Corinthians 7/31 from which we can see that some things belong to this world only.
Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands,
they shall perish and they all shall wax old as doth a garment,
and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed, but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail. Hebrews 1/10-12.
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2007-01-13 03:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by Judd M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist but if there is a heaven, cats are far more deserving of a place there than the majority of people.
Rather late answer as my cat was asleep in front of the keyboard.
2007-01-13 04:23:37 · answer #6 · answered by Clive 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, there's so much...em...stuff here....where to start? Let me just say your cat is not going to heaven. Neither are you. Put away these foolish fantasies and lead a life more in tune with reality, and see the mental health benefits.
2007-01-13 05:44:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO. For two reasons. First, cats (animals) have not soul. Second, IF they could, they would take over there as they do here. YBIC
2007-01-13 01:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if there is a heaven for people (I'm an atheist by the way, so i don't believe any of this) there should be a heaven for kitties.
2007-01-13 01:29:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no proof either way on this.
But if you love your cat, whether she is good or naughty, she will always live on in your heart and that is a kind of immortality.
2007-01-13 01:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by Jo Mo 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋